2014-05-20
Tiananmen Mothers founding member Ding Zilin in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of Wikipedia
Chinese authorities have detained or placed under close surveillance the Continue reading
2014-05-20
Tiananmen Mothers founding member Ding Zilin in an undated photo.
Photo courtesy of Wikipedia
Chinese authorities have detained or placed under close surveillance the Continue reading
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
Tagged Ding Zilin, June 4th, Liu Di, Tiananmen
Posted on May 24, 2014 by Maura Cunningham
As the June Fourth anniversary grows closer, security measures in China continue to tighten. The anniversary’s approach has also coincided with a spate of terrorist acts in China’s western region of Xinjiang, where explosive devices detonated in a market on Thursday morning killed 31 people and injured nearly 100 more. In Shanghai, a visit by Russian president Vladimir Continue reading
23 May 2014
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned that eight people have been charged and several media outlets forced to shut down without cause after a crackdown organised by the Central Propaganda Department and government Continue reading
Eight charged after nationwide media crackdown in China已关闭评论
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Tagged Free Expression, Press Freedom
Damian Barr
Posted: 04/30/2014 12:02 pm EDT Updated: 04/30/2014 12:59 pm EDT
Fiction is the willing suspension of disbelief–the reader knows they’re being kidded. The novelist’s job is to make them forget this. With memoir, the reader needs to believe you’re telling the truth. As a child I was told nobody would believe me so I pretended to be Continue reading
Posted on May 23, 2014 by necksbetrim
Seeing that Eric Abrahamsen’s translation of Xu Zechen’s Running Through Beijing was released by Two Lines Press earlier this month, it seems appropriate to sketch out a tradition of Continue reading
CHINESE LIANHUANHUA: A CENTURY OF PIRATED MOVIES已关闭评论
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Tagged CHINESE, LIANHUANHUA
Lisa Parkin
Social Media Consultant, YA Book Blogger
Posted: 05/21/2014 1:09 pm EDT Updated: 05/21/2014 1:59 pm EDT Print Article
BookExpo America commences in one week (May 29-May 31), and with hundreds of authors, events and signings, it’s a busy and confusing place to be.
I talked with a few publishers who helped me narrow down what young adult book fans should do, see and read at BEA this year. Continue reading
BookExpo America 2014: Books, Events and Authors to Watch for已关闭评论
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“Keep quiet and carry on” is the slogan that can best describe China’s take on the approaching 25th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Continue reading
China: Censors work overtime for Tiananmen anniversary已关闭评论
Posted in Headlines, June 4th Commemoration
20 May 2014
A 1980 lianhuanhua version of Xingqiu dazhan 星球大战 (Star Wars)A few of my lianhuanhua (the Li Huiniang – a reprint – is unusually large)
A few of my lianhuanhua (Li Huiniang – a reprint – is unusually large)
As much as I don’t miss large swaths of life in China, I do look longingly at kongfz.com, Continue reading